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Post by AussieMeg on Nov 11, 2016 5:13:39 GMT
Busypea, what do the white states mean?
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used2scrap
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Post by used2scrap on Nov 11, 2016 5:16:02 GMT
Busypea, what do the white states mean? It looks like states with no protections.
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Post by BeckyTech on Nov 11, 2016 17:00:38 GMT
Once again, Mexico is not a race, neither is a religion. If you can't parse parts out of a candidate/party, then I guess the Clinton voters were condoning her illegal mail server and attempted cover up. I wish some day the left would actually talk issues instead of accusing every presidential candidate in my memory of being Hitler and/or racist. It's getting really old.So, stop nominating racists! Darn that Bush, McCain, and Romney. Evil Hitler figures and racists, every one.
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Post by terri on Nov 11, 2016 17:17:05 GMT
So, stop nominating racists! Darn that Bush, McCain, and Romney. Evil Hitler figures and racists, every one. I and most people on this board said nothing of the sort. I have said over and over on this board that I believe each one of these men are decent people whose policies I disagreed with. I have certainly showed more respect for all of them than Donald Trump has.
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Post by BeckyTech on Nov 11, 2016 18:46:06 GMT
Once again, Mexico is not a race, neither is a religion. If you can't parse parts out of a candidate/party, then I guess the Clinton voters were condoning her illegal mail server and attempted cover up. I wish some day the left would actually talk issues instead of accusing every presidential candidate in my memory of being Hitler and/or racist. It's getting really old. so Mexicans are rapists and drug dealers isn't a racist statement?Muslim is a religion (halt all Muslim immigrants). Ok so Hillary supporters are tech bigots, anti email? How does that impact civil rights of American citizens? Is she going to grab them by the server and forcibly email them? Ok you think she is corrupt (cleared multiple times by the FBI). Trump actually spoke the words advocating racist/sexist/homophobic/xenophobic ideology. But I understand, you voted for his other ideas, economics, while pretending that the racist/sexist/homophobic/xenophobic don't exist. Mexico is a country. Some people who come here from Mexico are indeed rapists and drug dealers and if you don't understand that the Mexican drug cartels employ a whole lot of very bad people, then you could stand to do some research. The drugs are distributed by gangs like MS-13, Barrio Azteca, Nuestra Familia, and so on to inner city gangs for sale and distribution. It's a big problem. Hundreds of millions of dollars per week are at stake. It would be good if they couldn't just stroll across the border.
Notice that Trump does a lot of A-B testing. So we went from halting all Muslim immigrants to extreme vetting from countries that have large organizations trying to kill Americans. I'm good with extreme vetting. I don't want anyone unfairly profiled or persecuted, but right now we are living in a society that has Islamaphobic-phobia. Did you know that neighbors to the San Bernardino extremists were afraid to report the suspicious activity that they saw for fear of being called xenophobic? We need a little common sense here. We should be able to make it okay to report suspicious activity and not violate anyone's civil rights, but not condemn the people who want to report as racist or xenophobic. Did those 14 people die because of political correctness? It's possible. Who has the most hate crimes committed against them by a wide margin? Jews. I wonder where the public awareness is on that?
And no, Clinton was not cleared by the FBI, she just wasn't prosecuted. Big difference.
Trump wasn't my first choice by a wide margin, and it kind of surprised me how many people were willing to overlook his affairs and other bad behavior to propel him to the nomination, but I guess Bill Clinton kind of paved the way on those issues and made it all a lot less shocking. Trump didn't advocate any of those things, he said he was surprised about what women "let" him do. "Let" is not assault. Out of all the times that he got signals from women, I'm sure some of them were not read correctly. When I was young and slender, I had a few encounters that were rather aggressive, but they were probably a matter of misread signals. I never considered them "assault."
This year has been a year of learning for me, I was open to learning about persuasion and things like confirmation bias, commitment, and how emotions drive our choices.
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Post by BeckyTech on Nov 11, 2016 18:52:40 GMT
I just read that Peter Thiel, the Silicone Valley billionaire venture capitalist, Facebook board member, and co-founder of PayPal, who spoke at the RNC, is going to join the transition team. Thiel is gay.
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Post by BeckyTech on Nov 11, 2016 18:55:11 GMT
Darn that Bush, McCain, and Romney. Evil Hitler figures and racists, every one. I and most people on this board said nothing of the sort. I have said over and over on this board that I believe each one of these men are decent people whose policies I disagreed with. I have certainly showed more respect for all of them than Donald Trump has. Terri, you may not have, but that is how each of them have been characterized by the left.
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Post by jennyap on Nov 11, 2016 18:59:15 GMT
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Post by epeanymous on Nov 11, 2016 19:01:10 GMT
If any LGBTQ+ RefuPeas or your friends and family members need help now or in the coming period to protect your rights, please PM me. I will try to connect you to legal resources; I have a lot of networks of people who are committed to ensuring that as the administrations transition, you do not lose what we have gained.
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Post by BeckyTech on Nov 11, 2016 19:05:06 GMT
Well, this is definitely not for little ears, but he sums up exactly what I have been trying to say for a long time. Stop calling people names and start discussing:
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Nov 11, 2016 19:19:33 GMT
My sweet, dear friends are in fear that their marriage will be unrecognized and that it will affect their adopted child. (Removing the rights of one parent).
My boss, who is gay was told by someone (client or vendor, not sure which) that he should start keeping a gun in the building, as he will be a target now.
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Post by BeckyTech on Nov 11, 2016 19:34:11 GMT
Writing like this make me crazy. In the first paragraph it says "Trump is an authoritarian populist who promises to abolish free trade." Not even close. He merely wants to negotiate trade deals that won't lose us jobs; that are good for Americans. His stance on trade is something that has never changed over the course of his campaign:
With such a blatantly false statement in just the first paragraph, I really don't feel like I can trust anything that the article is trying to represent.
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